1979 Asian Athletics Championships

1979 Asian Championships
Host city Japan Tokyo, Japan
Date(s) May 31-June 3
Main stadium National Olympic Stadium
Participation at least 10 nations


The third Asian Championships in Athletics were held in 1979 in Tokyo, Japan.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres Suchart Chairsuvaparb
 Thailand
10.63 Suh Mei-Guh
 South Korea
10.75 Akira Harada
 Japan
10.80
200 metres Yasuhiro Harada
 Japan
21.34 Shunzo Shito
 Japan
21.34 Toshio Toyota
 Japan
21.39
400 metres Shoichi Handa
 Japan
47.45 Abbas Al-Aibi
 Iraq
47.47 Fahim Sada
 Iraq
47.51
800 metres Falah Naji Jarallah
 Iraq
1:49.5a Toshifumi Shigenari
 Japan
1:49.6a Sant Kumar
 India
1:50.1a
1500 metres Rattan Singh
 India
3:49.8a Takashi Ishii
 Japan
3:50.1a Toshifumi Shigenari
 Japan
3:50.9a
5000 metres Hideki Kita
 Japan
13:55.3a Takao Nakamura
 Japan
13:59.8a Gopal Singh Saini
 India
13:59.8a
10000 metres Toshihiko Seko
 Japan
28:59.2a Kunimitsu Ito
 Japan
29:00.2a Takeshi So
 Japan
29:02.5a
3000 metre steeplechase Masanari Shintaku
 Japan
8:40.8a Hitoshi Iwabuchi
 Japan
8:57.2a Gopal Singh Saini
 India
9:12.4a
110 metres hurdles Yoshifumi Fujimori
 Japan
14.29 Satbir Singh
 India
14.53 Jabbar Rahima
 Iraq
14.72
400 metres hurdles Hussein Kadhum
 Iraq
51.18 Takashi Nagao
 Japan
51.53 Yukihiro Yoshimatsu
 Japan
52.14
High jump Kazunori Koshikawa
 Japan
2.15 Takao Sakamoto
 Japan
2.15 Takashi Katamine
 Japan
2.15
Pole vault Itsuo Takanezawa
 Japan
5.20 Tomomi Takahashi
 Japan
5.10 Yosuhiro Kigawa
 Japan
5.00
Long jump Junichi Usui
 Japan
7.97 Suresh Babu
 India
7.94 Toshihisa Yoshimoto
 Japan
7.91w
Triple jump Zhou Zhenxian
 People's Republic of China
17.02 Motokuni Hiratani
 Japan
16.52w Masami Nakanishi
 Japan
16.50w
Shot put Mohammed Al-Zinkawi
 Kuwait
17.78 Zhao Baoqin
 People's Republic of China
17.50 Bahadur Singh Chouhan
 India
17.47
Discus throw Kiyotaka Kawasaki
 Japan
55.34 Li Weinan
 People's Republic of China
54.64 Michio Kita
 Japan
53.06
Hammer throw Shigenobu Murofushi
 Japan
66.73 Masayuki Kawata
 Japan
65.94 Raghubir Singh Bal
 India
61.52
Javelin throw Shen Maomao
 People's Republic of China
86.50 Toshihiro Yamada
 Japan
78.46 Masahiko Takita
 Japan
78.46
Decathlon Atsushi Kasai
 Japan
7096 Toshikazu Kobayashi
 Japan
6983 Jin Xuewei
 People's Republic of China
6975
20 kilometre road walk Hakam Singh
 India
1:35:40 Wang Qiang
 People's Republic of China
1:35:48 Vellasamy Subramaniam
 Malaysia
1:36:27
4 × 100 metres relay  Japan39.70  Thailand40.20  India40.41
4 × 400 metres relay  Iraq3:08.8a  Japan3:08.9a  India3:11.8a

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres Emiko Konishi
 Japan
12.09 Ying Yaping
 People's Republic of China
12.10 Mo Myung-Hee
 South Korea
12.11
200 metres Sumiko Kaibara
 Japan
24.45 Mo Myung-Hee
 South Korea
24.49 Emiko Konishi
 Japan
24.72
400 metres Chung Byong-Soon
 South Korea
54.33 Rita Sen
 India
54.99 Yumiko Aoi
 Japan
55.66
800 metres Chung Byong-Soon
 South Korea
2:06.1a Chang Yong-Ae
 North Korea
2:10.2a Takako Sanda
 Japan
2:11.8a
1500 metres Kim Ok-Sun
 North Korea
4:25.0a Kim Chun-Hwa
 North Korea
4:29.1a Lü Hongxiang
 People's Republic of China
4:31.3a
3000 metres Kim Ok-Sun
 North Korea
9:24.9a Yang Yenying
 People's Republic of China
9:30.8a Kim Chun-Hwa
 North Korea
9:31.4a
100 metres hurdles Emi Akimoto
 Japan
14.17 Dai Jianhua
 People's Republic of China
14.33 Tamie Motegi
 Japan
14.45
400 metres hurdles Yumiko Aoi
 Japan
60.46 Marina Chin Leng Sim
 Malaysia
61.63 Zhan Xin
 People's Republic of China
61.84
High jump Zheng Dazhen
 People's Republic of China
1.87 Tamami Yagi
 Japan
1.81 Hisayo Fukumitsu
 Japan
1.81
Long jump Sumie Awara
 Japan
6.42w Zou Wa
 People's Republic of China
6.27w Kazuko Ishizu
 Japan
6.05w
Shot put Shen Lijuan
 People's Republic of China
17.48 Yukari Seo
 Japan
14.78 Yumiko Asari
 Japan
14.12
Discus throw Li Xiaohui
 People's Republic of China
58.62 Yukari Seo
 Japan
46.64 Yumiko Asari
 Japan
44.16
Javelin throw Li Xia
 People's Republic of China
58.44 Yao Juiying
 People's Republic of China
54.82 Naomi Shibusawa
 Japan
51.16
Pentathlon Ye Peisu
 People's Republic of China
4139 Tomoko Uchida
 Japan
3753 Sachie Sekiguchi
 Japan
3706
4 × 100 metre relay  Japan45.85  Thailand46.03  India46.93
4 × 400 metre relay  Japan3:45.9a  Malaysia3:46.3a  Philippines3:57.5a

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Japan 20 18 21 59
2  People's Republic of China 7 8 3 18
3  Iraq 3 1 2 6
4  India 2 3 8 13
5  South Korea 2 2 1 5
5  North Korea 2 2 1 5
7  Thailand 1 2 0 3
8  Kuwait 1 0 0 1
9  Malaysia 0 2 1 3
10  Philippines 0 0 1 1
Total 383838114
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